The recordings were taken to Morgan Studios in London, where they were mixed by Wakeman and engineer Paul Tregurtha between 21–29 January.[15]
The two encountered a number of problems. Wakeman explained, "Someone
in the street had accidentally kicked out the vocal mike cable just
before we started recording. So we boosted up the vocals that were
picked up on the other mikes". A snare drum
and its microphone also broke during the performance, and Hemmings
recorded more narration in the studio after it was found that a tape
change occurred in the middle of one of his passages.[11]

"...And the FM radio in America—especially university radio—was very excited to play “Close to the Edge,” “And You and I,” “Starship Trooper,” and longer pieces. So we felt, well, the door seems to be open. Let’s make some music ..."

I keep saying that, to help illustrate how important FM radio was to progressive music. Without it, I'm not sure that a lot of it would have happened. AM radio in America was never gonna play 20th Century Schizoid anything, except 20th Century Schizoid Money, and it would be only 2 minutes long!

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"...And the FM radio in America—especially university radio—was very excited to play “Close to the Edge,” “And You and I,” “Starship Trooper,” and longer pieces. So we felt, well, the door seems to be open. Let’s make some music ..."

I keep saying that, to help illustrate how important FM radio was to progressive music. Without it, I'm not sure that a lot of it would have happened. AM radio in America was never gonna play 20th Century Schizoid anything, except 20th Century Schizoid Money, and it would be only 2 minutes long!

Good point, but I would posit that prog would NOT have become so popular without the huge, popular AM hits. Many US autos in 1972 did NOT have an FM radio option, so we heard "Fragile" mixed in with a lot of pop and bubble-gum music....

FM in the USA seems like it was rather underground, and only when FM radios became standard equipment on autos, probably 1975 or so, did the AOR (album-oriented rock) compositions reach mainstream.

Another force, not mentioned yet to my knowledge, was the proliferation of the "8-track tape"! They were not great fidelity, and most of them seemed to be bootlegs cut from LPs, but I had a case-full of those things in my 1972 Chevrolet Nova! Tull, Yes, Zep, Purple etc.

*groan!* These things were horrible, BUT they were easy to insert into the tape player whilst driving!

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